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Pope Runs One of America's Biggest Firms
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An Economist article last year estimated that institutions run by the Catholic church—mostly hospitals and educational institutions—spent $170 billion in the United States alone back in 2010. For comparison's sake, Apple had $157 billion in revenue in Fiscal Year 2012. In fact, just sixteen companie...
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oh you didn't mean this?: "The Federal Reserve System is just like the Church. That's probably why I feel so comfortable with it. It's got a pope, the chairman; and a College of Cardinals, the governors and bank presidents; and a curia, the senior staff. The equivalent of the laity is the commercial banks. If you're a naughty parishioner in the Catholic Church, you come to confession. In this system, if you're naughty, you come to the discount window for a loan. We even have different orders of religious thought like Jesuits and Franciscans and Dominicans only we call them pragmatists and monetarists and neo-Keynesians."